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Seven members of the Minneapolis/St. Paul based "RPM" (Racing Plastic Models) model club were among the first ever "Civilians" (people other than Moebius/Pegasus and their contractors/vendors) to take a look inside the new Moebius 1964 Mercury Comet "K-Code" full detail model kit, on Saturday, October 18, 2025. Let's take a closer look at what they saw when the X-Acto knife broke the seal on the kit...

This link leads to 45+ images of each of the parts trees in the kit, decals, and each section of the instruction sheet. At the end are some more photos of the body with the hood installed, and then with the front and rear bumpers and grilles. Note that the decision to include the hood with scoops meant the necessity of an expensive sliding tool feature to accommodate the hood and scoop into a single part.

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions in the comments section and use the "Roll View" feature to look at the images in sequence. Thanks for looking! TIM

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I am looking forward to getting this one, having owned a pair of '64 Comets for a total of 38 years. I am hoping that an enterprising 3D entrepreneur will give us some of the pieces which Moebius did not have the opportunity to change from their '65 kit (such as the '66 inner fenders) and possibly giving us the Caliente side trim and teardrop hood to do the A/FX cars.

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I have a Teardrop hood for the AMT kit

Wonder how well it fits this new car , if at all 

 

I have NO idea when or where i got them, or who made them 

I have 2 of the AMT kits in the stash 

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Said AMT kit has the side trim 

Be real curious how well the 2 kits can be combined to make nice Caliente. 

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On a side note. did the 1/1 car have underhood duct work to make the scoops functional 20251020_0921372.jpg.ed427584b0a03cae08e39d41a50a6f3c.jpg

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7 hours ago, gtx6970 said:

I have a Teardrop hood for the AMT kit

Wonder how well it fits this new car , if at all 

 

I have NO idea when or where i got them, or who made them 

I have 2 of the AMT kits in the stash 

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'64 and '65 hoods are different at the front.

The dual scoop hood should have the ductwork on the lower side.  I don't know what the ductwork looks like for the Weber carb setup, but the dual quad setup should have ductwork resembling the one pictured below.  Notice it is a mirror image of the one in the AMT '65 Fairlane kit.

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33 minutes ago, Mark said:

'64 and '65 hoods are different at the front.

The dual scoop hood should have the ductwork on the lower side.  I don't know what the ductwork looks like for the Weber carb setup, but the dual quad setup should have ductwork resembling the one pictured below.  Notice it is a mirror image of the one in the AMT '65 Fairlane kit.

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The hoods i have are for the amt 1964 kit

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